Central City Opera House (Central City, Colo.)
Biography
__ __ __Work cat.: The glory that was gold, 1992: t.p. (Central City Opera House) p. vii (built in 1878 in Central City, Colo.)
Biography
Central City Opera House is given to the University of Denver by the McFarlane family in 1932 (Ida Kruse McFarlane, Professor of English at DU, good friends with Anne Evans). The CCOHA was administered as a non-profit corporation during this time.
Sources
Breck, From the Rockies to the World, 1997, 126.
Found in 2542 Collections and/or Records:
1952 Cast of "La Boheme", 1952
Photo sheet of the 1952 Central City production of 'La Boheme' presented in Cenrtal City, Colorado.Sheets include photographs of Jean Gibbons, Ann Ayars, Algerd Brazis, Michael Bondon, Davis Cunningham, Hugh Thmpson and Chester Watson.
1962 Cast of 'La Boheme", 1962
Unknown actors in the 1962 production of 'La Boheme.'
A Man Gives a Shave in the ''Barber of Seville'', between 1941-1965
An unidentified performer shaves another man in the 1965 Central City Opera production of ''The Barber of Seville.''
''Abduction From Sergalio'', 1946
Unidentified women perform in the Central City Opera production of ''Abduction From Sergalio.''
Act I of ''And Perhaps Happiness'', 1958
Left to right, Hugh Marlowe as Aaron, Richard Gaines as Horace Greely, K.T. Stevens as Silverheels and Paul McQuire as Pap Wycker perform together in act I of the 1958 Central City Opera production of ''And Perhaps Happiness.''
Act I of 'The Mikado', 1955-1968
Photograph of Philip Potter as Nanki-Poo in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company production of 'The Mikado' at the Central City Opera House in central City, Colorado.
Act I 'Pirates of Penzance', 1955-1968
Unidentified performers in a scene from act I in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company production of 'Pirates of Penzance' at the central City Opera House in central City, Colorado.
Act II of 'The Mikado', 1955-1968
Photograph of Peggy Ann Jones as Pitti Sing, Kenneth Sandford as Pooh Bah, John Reed as Ko Ko and Philip Potter as Nanki-Poo in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company production of 'The Mikado' at the Central City Opera House in central City, Colorado.
Act III of ''And Perhaps Happiness'', 1958
Left to right, Mason Alan Dinehart as Jonathan, William Hughes as Aaron, Dick Marion as Harry and Barbara Moore as Sylvia perform together in act III of the 1958 Central City Opera production of Thomas Hornsby Ferril's ''And Perhaps Happiness.''
Adelaide Bishop
Portrait of Adelaide Bishop, a soprano singer from the New York City Opera who performed with the Central City Opera during the 1949 season in "Die Fledermaus", 1950 in "Don Pasquale", 1951 in "Romeo and Juliet" and "Dont Pasquale" and also in 1954 in "Ariadne auf Naxos."
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